Lesson #2: Spanish and English Colonization Overview
This lesson began as an interactive lecture. It will grow into an examination of primary sources, a discussion, and a period where we make connections between all of the pieces information flying around. These connections will eventually be put into a long term study project. Please email Mr. Kallage for the powerpoint if you missed it.
Here are the themes, posed as questions, we are looking at:
What are the reasons for English, Spanish, and French entry into the New World?
How can we describe the complexity of interactions between the Europeans and the Native Americans?
What are the potentials for conflict based on land occupation, empire, and migration between all parties involved?
How can we describe the emerging economy of the English colonists and the role of indentured servitude?
What attitudes, beliefs, and practices have been brought from Europe that will determine how the Europeans interact with the land and people of the Americas?
How did the Europeans change the biological environment?
What ideas of God, government, and society are influencing the Europeans? How would you describe the Puritan worldview?
What attitudes and situations will eventually lead the colonists toward independence from England?
Lesson #2: Spanish and English Colonization Overview
Here are the themes, posed as questions, we are looking at:
What are the reasons for English, Spanish, and French entry into the New World?
How can we describe the complexity of interactions between the Europeans and the Native Americans?
What are the potentials for conflict based on land occupation, empire, and migration between all parties involved?
How can we describe the emerging economy of the English colonists and the role of indentured servitude?
What attitudes, beliefs, and practices have been brought from Europe that will determine how the Europeans interact with the land and people of the Americas?
How did the Europeans change the biological environment?
What ideas of God, government, and society are influencing the Europeans? How would you describe the Puritan worldview?
What attitudes and situations will eventually lead the colonists toward independence from England?
Primary sources:
Magna Carta 1215:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/magframe.asp
The Virginia charter: 1606
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/va01.asp
Richard Frethorne's 1623 letter on his life as an indentured servant
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/jamestown-browse?id=J1012
English Bill of Rights
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/england.asp
The Mayflower Compact: 1620
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp
Salem Witch Trials Primary Sources
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm